ECTS - Bureaucracy and Turkish Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy and Turkish Bureaucracy (KAM302) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Bureaucracy and Turkish Bureaucracy | KAM302 | Area Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| NONE |
| Course Language | Turkish |
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| Course Type | Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the concept of bureaucracy, different theoretical approaches to bureaucracy, bureaucracy-politics relations, bureaucratic institutions and bureaucratic behaviors. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Patrimonial bureaucracy; legal-rational bureaucracy; rational-productive bureaucracy; Turkey`s bureaucratic structure from the Ottoman Empire to present day. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Forms of government in the world. | Relevant section in resources |
| 2 | What is bureaucracy? Its history, formation. differentiation according to state types. | Relevant section in resources |
| 3 | Organizational theories, scientific management, human relations, systems approaches. | Relevant section in resources |
| 4 | Bureaucracy features and types, patrimonial legal rational and rational productive bureaucracy | Relevant section in resources |
| 5 | Marx, Hegel and their understanding of bureaucracy in liberal thought | Relevant section in resources |
| 6 | Bureaucracy theory, authority, constitutionalism, organization, critique of bureaucracy in Weber | Relevant section in resources |
| 7 | Midterm | The midterm exam will include all the subjects of the first six weeks. |
| 8 | Bureaucracy and management processes (POSDCORB) | Relevant section in resources |
| 9 | Bureaucracy and politics, relations of bureaucracy with development and democracy | Relevant section in resources |
| 10 | Audit of bureaucracy, e-bureaucracy | Relevant section in resources |
| 11 | New management approach (productivity-accountability-citizen orientation-transparency) | Relevant section in resources |
| 12 | Bureaucracy in the ottoman | Relevant section in resources |
| 13 | Bureaucracy in the Republican Era | Relevant section in resources |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Eryılmaz, Bilal. 2002. Bürokrasi ve Siyaset. Bürokratik Devletten Etkin Yönetime. İstanbul: ALFA. |
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| 2. Akyıldız, Ali, Osmanlı Bürokrasisi ve Modernleşme, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2015. | |
| 3. Aykaç, Burhan, Durgun, Şenol, Yayman, Hüseyin, Türkiye’de Kamu Yönetimi, Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2012. | |
| 4. Findley, Carter Vaughan, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Bürokratik Reform Babıâli, 1789-1922, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, İstanbul, 2014. | |
| 5. Heper, Metin, Bürokratik Yönetim Geleneği: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nde Gelişimi ve Niteliği, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi İdarî İlimler Fakültesi Yayın No. 23, Ankara, 1974. | |
| 6. Heper, Metin, Türk Kamu Bürokrasisinde Gelenekçilik ve Modernleşme, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 1977 | |
| 7. Şaylan, Gencay, Türkiye’de Kapitalizm, Bürokrasi ve Siyasi İdeoloji, Verso Yayınları, Ankara, 1986. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 40 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 60 |
| Toplam | 2 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 40 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 60 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | |
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| Major Area Courses | X |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Students can learn the basic concepts, theories and methods of political science and public administration and use them in the analysis of national and global political developments and cause-effect relationships. | |||||
| 2 | It enables one to understand how policies are created and implemented in real life at the local, national, regional and/or global level, to recognize the important institutions and actors that play a role in these processes, and to know the functioning of public administration. | |||||
| 3 | It provides a basic level of knowledge about other fields related to political science and public administration disciplines (such as international relations, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, economics, law, history, etc.) and thus provides an interdisciplinary understanding that takes into account the relationships between different areas of life and establishes connections. | |||||
| 4 | Learning the use of quantitative and/or qualitative research techniques that can be used in the field of political science and public administration, software, hardware and/or technical tools that can be useful; gaining experience in designing and executing research projects to develop their application skills in this field. | |||||
| 5 | By promoting critical analytical thinking, intellectual debate and lifelong learning, the development of the ability to act with an open mind, to avoid discrimination and to be sensitive and respectful of different points of view, thus developing skills for acting in partnership. | |||||
| 6 | To develop decision-making and initiative taking, work completion and time management competencies by understanding business ethics in public administration, politics and all related fields. | |||||
| 7 | Developing communication skills, oral and written expression, presentation techniques; learning the writing principles and procedures required to write an academic article on political science and public administration disciplines. | |||||
| 8 | The aim of the course is to master the English terminology in the disciplines of political science and public administration and to gain foreign language knowledge at a level to follow the studies written in English, so that current political developments and events in various countries can be analysed comparatively. | |||||
| 9 | To know the political history of both Turkey and the world in terms of periods, important turning points and actors, to comprehend the impact of the social-historical backgrounds of countries on current political and administrative issues. | X | ||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 26 | 26 |
| Total Workload | 125 | ||